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Whether you are a veteran of data center migrations or are just getting started, moving your data center is a risky, complicated project for any organization. Extended downtime, damage to equipment, and inaccurate installation are just a few of the headaches that migrating a data center can cause. However, when planned and executed well, it can also lead to cost savings, improved efficiency, and other rewards.

What is a data center migration?

A data center migration is any movement of data center assets from one location to another. Examples include moving to a new data center, moving to a colocation facility, moving from one room or floor to another within the same data center, and transitioning applications and services to a hybrid/cloud environment.

Who is involved in a data center migration?

Data center migrations impact a variety of functional teams and roles. In addition to data center managers and operators, IT teams, facilities teams, network engineering teams, server teams, and infrastructure teams all may be involved at various points of the migration. There’s also the team who will be doing the physical move and installation.

With so many moving parts and people involved, it’s easy for key tasks and minute details to be overlooked. That’s where a data center migration checklist comes in.

Our Data Center Migration Checklist provides critical but easily forgotten tasks that can reduce risk and downtime during a data center move. Once you’ve selected a new site, use the checklist to help plan a successful transition—before, during, and after the migration.

Anyone involved in a migration can leverage this checklist for better planning and execution, to minimize unwelcome surprises, and to guard against the most common oversights in data center moves. Our Data Center Migration Checklist highlights key tasks and considerations across the following categories in a data center move:

Migration Project Planning

Asset and Application Inventory

New Infrastructure Planning

Pre-Migration

Migration Day

Post-Migration

You also can share this checklist with your migration team to gain alignment and share tasks in the planning and execution of the move.

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About DCIM and Data Center Infrastructure Management Software

Today's data centers have increased in size, density and complexity. Managers need an easy to use Data Center Management System to improve efficiency through data center optimization, extending the useful life of their existing physical infrastructure, while ensuring uptime. A new category of tools with integrated processes, DCIM Software, combines the capability of tracking assets with the coordination and validation of managing space, power, data center cable management and cooling.